Kershaw Elementary School

2025-2026 Bill 5695: Kershaw Elementary School - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 5695
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House Resolution
Sponsors: Reps. C. Mitchell, Alexander, Anderson, Atkinson, Bailey, Ballentine, Bamberg, Bannister, Bauer, Beach, Bernstein, Bowers, Bradley, Brewer, Brittain, Burns, Bustos, Calhoon, Caskey, Chapman, Chumley, Clyburn, Cobb-Hunter, Collins, Cox, Crawford, Cromer, Davis, Dillard, Duncan, Edgerton, Erickson, Ford, Forrest, Frank, Gagnon, Garvin, Gatch, Gibson, Gilliam, Gilliard, Gilreath, Govan, Grant, Guest, Guffey, Haddon, Hager, Hardee, Harris, Hart, Hartnett, Hartz, Hayes, Henderson-Myers, Herbkersman, Hewitt, Hiott, Hixon, Holman, Hosey, Howard, Huff, J.E. Johnson, J.L. Johnson, Jones, Jordan, Kilmartin, King, Kirby, Landing, Lastinger, Lawson, Ligon, Long, Lowe, Luck, Magnuson, Martin, McCabe, McCravy, McDaniel, McGinnis, D. Mitchell, Montgomery, J. Moore, T. Moore, Morgan, Moss, Neese, B. Newton, W. Newton, Oremus, Pace, Pedalino, Pope, Rankin, Reese, Rivers, Robbins, Rose, Rutherford, Sanders, Schuessler, Scott, Sessions, G.M. Smith, M.M. Smith, Spann-Wilder, Stavrinakis, Taylor, Teeple, Terribile, Vaughan, Waters, Weeks, Wetmore, White, Whitmire, Wickensimer, Williams, Willis, Wooten and Yow
Document Path: LC-0757WAB-GM26.docx
Introduced in the House on May 13, 2026
Adopted by the House on May 13, 2026
Summary: Kershaw Elementary School
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date

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5/13/2026

House

Introduced and adopted (
House Journal-page 7
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05/13/2026

A
house
RESOLUTION

to recognize and honor the pupils, faculty, and
Administration of Kershaw Elementary School for being chosen as a Beating the
Odds Investigative Study school and to congratulate them for overcoming issues
that hinder the possibility of an excellent education in order to become high
achieving in academics.

W
hereas, the members of
the South Carolina House of Representatives are delighted to learn that Kershaw
Elementary School has been selected as a Beating the Odds Investigative Study
school by the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee (EOC); and

W
hereas, the "Beating
the Odds" Investigative Study, often conducted in states like South Carolina,
identifies high-poverty schools that achieve excellent academic results despite
high student-poverty levels. Researchers use longitudinal data and focus groups
to find that these schools succeed through high expectations, strong
leadership, and student-first cultures; and

W
hereas, the
investigative study was implemented by the EOC in 2024 with a purpose of
examining the practices and characteristics of schools where students are
achieving well academically despite having a high percentage of pupils in
poverty. Because the EOC is charged with encouraging continuous improvement in
South Carolina public schools, this study will help to identify possible
characteristics that might assist schools in serving students in poverty; and

W
hereas, schools that
qualify for the study have an enrollment of more than one hundred students;
acquire an "Excellent" overall rating with no "Below Average" or "Unsatisfactory"
indicator ratings on the South Carolina School Report Card; have a poverty
ratio greater than or equal to seventy-five percent based on the average
poverty index of elementary schools with an overall rating of "Below Average,"
the same level of poverty to qualify for federal Title 1 funding; and have open
enrollment policies not contingent upon academic achievement or upon evaluation
of application or audition; and

W
hereas, the South
Carolina House of Representatives deeply appreciates the dedicated work of
educators and school administrators who devote themselves to the education of
future generations of South Carolinians who will lead this State as productive
citizens. Now, therefore,

B
e it resolved by the
House of Representatives
:

T
hat the members of the
South Carolina
House of Representatives
,
by this resolution, recognize and honor the pupils, faculty, and administration
of Kershaw Elementary School for being chosen as a Beating the Odds
Investigative Study school and congratulate them for overcoming issues that
hinder the possibility of an excellent education in order to become high
achieving in academics.

B
e it further resolved
that a copy of this resolution be presented to Principal Kelli Overcash.

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